Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd Gritty, 19Th-Century English Romance Finds Love And Hate Down On The Farm In the realm of 19th-century romantic literature, the works of Thomas Hardy have a bit more meat on the bone than your average [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 21, 2015 Read More “Wanna make out and then milk some cows?”
Film Review: Spring Can Odd Indie Romance Get Its Act Together For Love Or Monsters? A horror-romance? Now there’s something you don’t see every day. Sure, Gothic horror (like Dracula) has always contained elements of the romantic in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 14, 2015 Read More
Film Review: The D Train Bromantic Dramedy Tries To Be Edgy, Settles For “Edgeish” Commercials for The D Train would have you think it’s just another raunchy bromance about a middle-aged loser (Jack Black) who tries to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ May 07, 2015 Read More
Film Review: Clouds Of Sils Maria Film Industry Drama Finds Actress Caught Between Art And A Hard Place Longtime writer-director, son of famed screenwriter Jacques Rémy, early advocate of the New Asian Cinema of the ’80s and ’90s, Cannes Film Festival [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 30, 2015 Read More
Film Review: The Salt Of The Earth Breathtaking Photography Forms Backbone Of Life-Changing Biopic Many years ago, as he informs us in the opening narration to his artistic new documentary The Salt of the Earth, German director [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 23, 2015 Read More
Film Review: Merchants Of Doubt If Facts Have A Liberal Bias, Then Emotions Love Conservatives Filmmaker Robert Kenner (The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal; Russia’s Last Tsar; Food, Inc.) starts out his whip-smart new documentary, Merchants of Doubt, by [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 16, 2015 Read More
Film Review: It Follows Innovative Indie Horror Flick Creeps Into The Mainstream It’s refreshing to find out that, occasionally, the movie industry is capable of surprising itself and its audiences. Normally, Hollywood movie studios prefer [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 09, 2015 Read More
Film Review: White God Canine Coup Strikes Hungary In Animalistic Revenge Flick The easiest way to describe the film White God is to say it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, but with dogs instead of birds. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 02, 2015 Read More
Film Review: Wild Tales Energetic Argentine Anthology Believes Revenge Is A Dish Best Served On Fire Buried in a shallow grave somewhere in the dark space between the violent vignettes of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and the twisty short [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 26, 2015 Read More
Film Review: ’71 Fast-Paced British Thriller Drops Viewers Into The Middle Of The Northern Ireland Conflict For Some Bruising Action To anyone who’s seen a war movie in the last 50 years, the opening sequence of ’71 will feel very familiar: raw, young [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 19, 2015 Read More
